Strange Attractors - Strange Attractors

MNM034

Jess Green – guitar, effects
Dylan van der Schyff – drum kit, percussion

This recording documents a series of spontaneous improvisations made over a single session in Melbourne, Australia. The music is exuberant and complex – at times cinematic, at times cheeky and raucous. These are real-time conversations in sound and emotion, evoking free jazz, free improvisation, ambient and drone music, and, occasionally, shades of 90’s grunge rock.

The name Strange Attractors is borrowed from the mathematics of complex systems. It describes the dynamic forces that pull systems in chaos towards coordination, but never in the same way twice. This term is used in the study of grand complex systems such as planetary orbits, flocking birds, swarming insects, and weather systems. Strange Attractors describes unpredictable pattern formation in nature and therefore provides a delightful metaphor for the free-wheeling constellations of energy in these pieces.

credits

released September 22, 2024

All tracks by Jess Green and Dylan van der Schyff

Recorded August 18th, 2023, at the Brian Brown Studio, University of Melbourne, Southbank.

Tracking by Pat Telfer
Mixing by Bob Scott
Mastering by Joe Talia
Artwork by Cameron Haas, Untitled #116 (2023)
Design by Brodie Mcallister

Special thanks to Phil Slater, Richard Johnson, and Jo Lawry.

This music was recorded on the unceded ancestral lands of the people of the Kulin Nation.